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Kōrero: Security and personal safety

Safe communities

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Safe communities

By 2016, 24 New Zealand communities or cities had received the designation ‘Safe Communities’. To achieve this status communities (usually through city councils) must demonstrate through their policies and actions that they are committed to achieving a safer environment.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Safe Communities Foundation

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Carl Walrond, Security and personal safety – Safer cities, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/map/30949/safe-communities (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 4 April 2011, updated 1 August 2017.